Dr. Peter B. Levy is a professor of history at York College in York, Pennsylvania. He was born and raised in northern California, where he attended the University of California, Berkeley, and received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1978. Dr. Levy went on to study at Columbia University in New York City, where he earned both his Master’s degree and his Ph.D. in 1980 and 1986 respectively. He currently lives in Towson, Maryland with his wife. Dr. Levy is a specialist in recent American history. He gives courses on Modern America, Women, Race, and Economic History. Dr. Levy’s publications include: Civil War on Race Street: The Civil Rights Movement in Cambridge, Maryland; the Encyclopedia of the Clinton Presidency; Let Freedom Ring: A Documentary on the Modern Civil Rights Movement; The Civil Rights Movement: Guides to Historic Events of the Twentieth Century; The New Left and Labor in the 1960s; and, America in the Sixties - Right, Left, and Center. Currently Dr. Levy is working on a study of natural disasters in America.

Our interview will examine Dr. Levy’s forthcoming work, “Revisiting the Urban Revolts of the 1960s: York, Pennsylvania—A Case Study,” which will appear in The Seedtime, the Work, and the Harvest: New Perspectives on the Black Freedom Struggle (Florida University Press, 2018).